Asylum hotel migrant who left blind woman terrified when he burst into her house is cleared by police due to lack of evidence
The refugee hotel immigrant who frightened a blind woman when he entered her house was cleared by the police due to lack of evidence.
The man, in his early twenties, was staying at the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London, where anti-immigrant protests took place last summer.
Last August, he broke into the woman’s home after being followed by a group of men who told him to ‘go back to the hotel’ where protesters were gathering outside.
The woman’s family members stated that she was ‘traumatized’ by the incident and that ‘her life was feared’, adding that the woman was in a coma that day.
Footage of the moment the ‘terrible’ migrant was held by members of the public and urged to return to the Britannia Hotel, a five-minute walk away, went viral on social media.
A photo taken afterwards shows the man looking towards the public as police detained him.
The Metropolitan Police had previously said no crime had been detected but changed its mind after viewing CCTV footage, which led to the man being arrested on suspicion of common assault.
After frightening a blind woman by entering her home, the police took him into custody, and a photo taken after the incident shows the man looking towards the public.
The man, in his early twenties, was staying at the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London, where anti-immigrant protests took place last summer.
The man, who no longer lived at the Britannia Hotel, was cleared due to lack of evidence.
The hotel is still open to migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.
Around 41,500 people arrived in the UK on small boats in 2025, according to the Migration Observatory.
Channay Augustus, the blind woman’s daughter, pleaded guilty last year after attacking the immigrants’ hotel with a meat cleaver and finding the man in her mother’s apartment.
Augustus, then 22, was part of a group of about 20 people who allegedly tried to break into the hotel on the evening of August 13.
Augustus appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London via video link and admitted fighting and possessing a bladed or pointed article, namely a meat cleaver, in a public place outside the immigration hotel.
He pleaded not guilty to threatening two hotel security guards with a meat cleaver and assaulting an emergency worker.
His trial will be held in June this year.
